Organ-pedal.



PATENTED DEC. 29, 1903.

E. M. HUGHES.

ORGAN PEDAL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 21. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

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A TTORNE YS Patented December 29, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR M. HUGHES, OF ASHLAND, KENTUCKY.

ORGAN-PEDAL.

SPECIFKGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 748,378, dated December2 1 Application filed September 21, 1903. gerial No. 174,026. (Nomodel.)

To LtZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR M. HUGHES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Ashland, in the county of Boyd and State of Kentucky, haveinvented a new and Improved Organ-Pedal, of which the following isaspecification.

This invention relates to pedals for musical instruments, moredefinitely stated pedalkeys for pipe-organs.

The object had in view is to providea pedal or key of the characterstated which will work permanently and absolutely without noise.

A further object. had in view is to construct pedal-keys for organs andother instruments which shall work free from friction, and therebyobviate noise and lost motion common with similar pedals as they havebeen heretofore constructed.

The invention consists in the special construction, arrangement, andcombination of parts, which will hereinafter be fully de scribed and thenovel features pointed out in the claims.

In order to enable others to make and use my invention, I will nowproceed to describe it in detail with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1is a top plan view showing one pedal and broken-away portions of thepedalsupport-ing frame. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional viewthrough the supportingframe, showing the pedal in side elevation anddotted to pushed-down position. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of thepartsillustrated in Fig. 1.

So far as I am informed organ and other similar pedals as now made havedowel-pins or other guides at their free ends to prevent side play.Others are made with a stiff lifting-spring and without guiding means.To the latter construction there is objection, as the length of thepedal produces side play. Objection is made to those having dowel-pinsor other guides due to frictional contact of the parts and the noiseoccasioned thereby.

In my invention no form of dowel-pin or side guide is used, a specialand peculiar spring being employed in place thereof the use of which hasadditional advantage in assisting the ordinary pedal-lifting spring atthe outer end of the pedal.

In practicing my invention any form of pedal A may be employed and thesame have any suitable supporting-frame consisting, substantially, of afront board B, a rear board 0, sides I), and a stop-rail E.

The inner or movable end of the pedal is provided on its upper and lowersides with suitable felt packing F. Any suitable flat lifting-spring Hmay be employed at the front or hinge-acting end of the pedal.

Under the movable orinner end of the pedal I arrange a flat resilientbuckling-action spring I, having one end thereof fixedly secured to therear board 0 and its other end fixedly secured to the under side of thepedal. The spring-securing means may be variously modified withoutdeparting from the spirit of my invention, so long as twisting andturning at the spring ends is obviated as invented by me. While tensionof the spring I will measurably assist the pedal-lifting spring H, itschief use is guiding the inner or movable end of the pedal. The spring 1should be constructed of suitable resilient material which will permitbuckling thereof, as indicated at J in dotted pushed-down position ofthe pedal, and whereby its end fastenings are relieved from sliding orfrictional action and which at the same time will serve to guide themovable end of the pedal and insure it against lateral play. The actionof the spring being noiseless, it is apparent that a pedal having itsfree or inner end provided with suitable felt packing and a fixed flatguidingspring, as invented by me, in connection with the well-knownpedal-lifting spring, would effectively guide the pedal and obviate allnoise due to frictional contact and wear of parts.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a pedal, of a supportingframe, hinge-actingconnection, of the pedal at its forward end to the supportingframe, anda resilient buckling-spring having one end fixedly secured to the underside of the pedal and its other end fixedly secured and its other endsecured to the under side to the pedal-supporting frame, substantially0f the pedal, near its inner or movable end, 10 as described.substantially as described.

2. The combination with an organ-pedal 7 5 having a fixedly-securedlifting-spring, and EDGAR HUGHES a supporting-frame, of afixedly-secured flat Witnesses: guiding-spring, the said guiding-springhav- ARRIE M. HUGHES, ing one end secured to the supporting-frame,ARTHUR W. HOWE.

